DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

RAYMOND J. MCCALL PAPERS, 1952-1984

Abstract: Teaching and administrative files, presentations and writing projects, and records related to professional psychology organizations, created by Raymond
J. McCall, a member of the psychology faculty at Marquette.

Biographical Note: Raymond Joseph McCall was born in Bronx, New York on October 16, 1913. He received his A.B. in philosophy from Fordham in 1934, an M.A. from
Catholic University in 1936, and a Ph.D. in 1941 from Fordham. He then received his masters and doctoral degrees in psychology from Columbia in 1949 and 1951, respectively. His
teaching career began in 1936 as an instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at St. John’s University. After a brief leave from 1943 to 1946, when McCall
served as a communications officer in the United States Naval Reserve, he returned to St. John’s University as a professor and chairman of the Department of Philosophy and
Psychology. After serving as the Director of Psychological Testing and professor and chairman of the psychology department at DePaul and taking a year’s leave of absence as
a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard, McCall joined the Marquette University faculty in 1956. Initially hired as professor and chairman of the Psychology department as well as the
head of the University Counseling Service, McCall remained chairman until 1961 when he took a position as Director of the Psychological Services Center at Marquette. In 1966 McCall
became a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Marquette University School of Medicine and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was a leader in the establishment,
in 1978, of the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology and served as dean from 1979 to 1981. McCall retired in 1984 after 28 years on the faculty at Marquette and
45 years of teaching overall.

McCall’s clinical experience in Psychology began as a Rorschach examiner at the New York Psychiatric Institute from 1949 to 1951. He later served as a consulting
psychologist at Grace Medical Clinic in Brooklyn, New York, at the Psychiatric Institute of the Municipal Court in Chicago, Illinois and at St. Mary’s Hospital School of
Nursing in Milwaukee. He also served as a psychological consultant for the Wisconsin Division of Corrections and the Jackson Psychiatric Center.

McCall’s publications include four books: Basic Logic, a college textbook, A Preface to Scientific Psychology, The Varieties of Abnormality: A
Phenomenological Analysis, A Primer of Phenomenological Psychology, and Phenomenological Psychology: An Introduction. He was also the author of numerous
journal articles.

McCall was committed to a humanistic and phenomenological approach to psychology. His research interests focused on the quantitative evaluation of clinical tests and their
development, the psychological factors of obesity, and the normal personality. He also collaborated with Medard Boss on the development of an appropriate English terminology for
conveying of the fundamentals of Daseinanalysis.

Raymond McCall died of pneumonia January 31, 1990.

Scope and Content: The Raymond J. McCall Papers, 1952-1984 (3.3 cubic feet) document the teaching, research, and professional career of McCall. McCall’s
involvement in professional organizations was often in conjunction with his role at Marquette, as such, researchers should be aware that materials may be dispersed through the
series, especially the correspondence.

Series 2.3 - Professional Organizations, 1960-1984 (.5 cubic feet) documents
McCall’s involvement in and with various professional organizations. The majority of records relate to the American Psychological Association, especially Division 24 (the
division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) and the Wisconsin Psychological Association.